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A reported monthslong breach in the Defense Department’s human resources database exposed personal information of millions of military personnel and those related to them, including their Social Security numbers and job details.

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The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called “Polygraph+” or “Polygraph Next”, will focus on scoring algorithms that use artificial intelligence and machine learning and on a technique called “standoff sensing”, which…

The first sign of trouble came in July. While there was seemingly no meaningful debate about how many U.S. troops had died as part of the war with Iran — 18 American service members had made the ultimate sacrifice — the Defense Department decided to change its official online tally on the number of fatalities.

The Pentagon’s public account of US service member casualties in the Iran war excludes at least four service members killed in the Middle East since the war began on February 28, The Washington Post reported on Friday, citing six US officials familiar with the Defense Department’s internal casualty accounting data.

The Defense Department announced it will shift from cost accounting to U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. 

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A new instruction approved by Pentagon CIO Kirsten Davies includes procedures for AI-assisted software development as the department adapts for an era of “software-defined warfare.”

The top general in charge of securing and defending the Pentagon’s cyber infrastructure said Thursday that decades of delayed maintenance has left DOD networks increasingly vulnerable in the AI age, adding to the drumbeat of warnings across the field about agent-instigated hacks.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon in Washington on July 27, 2026.Photo: Annabelle Gordon/AFP